Combined hair foundation and switch-attaching device



ROBERT SCHEANBLUM AND GRACE SOHEANBLUMQOF DANBURYQ CONNECTICUT. Y i

COMBINED HAIR FOUNDTION .AND SWITCH-ATTACHING DEVICE.

1o all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT SOHEANBLUM and GRACE SCHEANBLUM, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Danbury, in the county of Fairfield and State of f Conn., have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Hair Foundations and Switch-Attaching Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The Vinvention relates to improvements in hair dressing foundations, and it is particularly adapted for use in producing vin the hair a roll effect. y

It has been proposed in the prior art to employ a foundation of an openworkma terial, but practice has demonstrated that it is frequently necessary for the user in order to give the hair an attractive appearance, to employ a switch or other false hair. In using the prior art structures considerable difficulty has been experienced in properly uniting the switch to the foundation so as to enable the switch to be properly rolledthere over and retained in position after the foundation has been placed in the hair.

The present invention therefore broadly comprehends a combined foundation and switch attaching device. It is an object of the invention to provide a foundationformed `with a suitable hook as a continuation of the material of the foundation adapted to receive the tape of the switch or the like, to v retain the same in position on the support when the switch is wrapped therearound.

From a more specific aspect, the invention comprises a foundation having a base which is slightly curved, and suitable hair supporting elements in combination with a hook formed of the material of the foundation adapted toreceive the loop of a switch which is then wrappedlupon the foundation that is to be applied. to the hairof the user.

While the invention is disclosed as being applied to a foundation forproducing a roll effect, it is of course applicable to other Specification of Letters Patent. l Patented J an. 11, 1921, l Application filed March 12, 1920. Serial No. 365,195.

drawings wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts the numeral l designates the base of the support, which is of a slightly bowed formation being disclosed as of a rectangular shape. The support has extending therefrom a central hair support 2 and a cross support 3. The hair support 2 is a continuation of the base l passing through a loop 4 in the base and then thereacross to be united to the opposite side of the base by a twisting thereof. Both the supports 2 and 3 are of a bowed formation and of an elevation materially greaterk than the elevation of the base 1. The support 3 is composed of a piece of material separate from that of the base 1 and support 2, being looped around the support 2 and at its opposite end twisted to form a hook 5. This hook is adapted to receive the loop 6 of a switch 7, it being appreciated that a switch is usually tively hard nature generally known as the tail of-the switch. In using the device the loop of the switch is secured tothe hook 5, and the tail thereof passed under the base of the foundation as disclosed in Fig. l, after which the switchis wrapped around the support or foundation to be then incorporated in the hair of the user. It is apparent that by utilizing the hook 5, the switch is always maintained in position, and it is an impossibility'for the switch to become disengaged from the foundation when the same has been rolled thereon.

While the switch attaching device is shown in the accompanying drawings in the nature is subj ectto other changes so long as a quick detachable form of attachment is provided to enable the loop of the switch to be united to the ysupport and to retain the switch thereon when the same is rolled over the support.

Having thus described the invention what we claim is:

l. A hair foundationcomprising-a base,

and hair supports connected therewith eX- tending above said base,of a switch kattaching hook disposed adjacent the base and vadapted to receive the loop of a switch first passing under the base and then to be wrapped around said foundation, the open ended portion of the hook facing upwardly and being disposed at an angie relative to switch supporting loop, said hook being disthe base. posed at an acute angie relative to the base.

2. A hair foundation comprising a wire In testimony whereof we affix our sig- 10 base, and wire supports carried by said base, natures.

5 the material of the base being twisted to form a switch attaching hook opening at the ROBERT SCHEANBLUM. upper portion of the hook to receive the GRACE SCHEANBLUM- 

